The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-04-21

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And there was plain I. :. Foolish people p
l think not at least, did not meet any OF
that class.
e Why did We wait? =
Isn't that exactly what am telling you
You see some years ago-I don't know how
many--a Mr.. lowell died. Being unable
/ to transfer his large financial interests to
| the country to which lie was going, he pro-
yided for liberal and widespread distribu:
/ ton g. them here.
Did you never notice how easy it is to
/ give away anything when yon can't man
age to keep it any longer?
Think of the anguish old Commodore
| ValGerbilt would have endured had he
been compelled to part with the little pile
which he gave to build the University at
Nashville, Tennessee, had he not known
| that the time was at hand when the only
way to keep money was to give it away.
1 When he had no further use for it Himself
he threw that little sop to charity, and, l
| fancy, thought he was driving sharp bar
| gain with the Lord.
Did Mr.. Lowell leave anything for
me you ask.
Yes; he left something for every person
who has stood in that long line on cold
mornings Of this winter and of those who
have preceded it. lie left me something.
a portion Of the money was used to erect
Lowell Institute" III which is q capa-
cious hall Another portion was set aside
as fund to provide intellectual food for
! the people; to spead q feast SO rich In
flavor, so rare in quality, SO abundant in
/ quantity that il viii be a liberal education
| to any one who sits at the banquet table,
and to give it, as salvation is given, $ with
/ out money and without price" But, as
| there are terms to be complied with before
/ one may drink from the fountains of life.
| so is there something to be done before one
| may claim place at this feast of reason. ?
| And rs fifteen hundred in that line were
simply complying with those conditions.
+ lizard ones 20
That depends on the strength of ones
| desire to be present at the banquet. With
treason, it is argued, that only that which
costs something in effort OF moneyis ap-
preciated. 1t is always the person riding
on pass who lifts his voice the highest in
tcondemnation the road he rides oyer.
| The 'sdeaa head = at an entertainment
| finds more fault than he who pays for ad-
mission The beggar sharply criticizes a
breakfast that an honest laborer would eat
with thankfulness in his heart. The law
of averages compels exertion before the
reward of keen enjoyment can be secured.
g Deserve the reward, do we (?
We think so, and we expect it; at least,
eight hundred of us do; but the others went
their way sorrowiDg. Like the foolish
| Virgins, they had come too laten We
| who had risen with the snow bird and held
urplaces as firmly as the Egyptian Sphynx,
marched homeWard with gladness shining
/ in eyes Which looked out above very red
noses and lips as blue as the buest blood of
proud old Boston town.
What had happened :"
Why. done you see? We came away
bearing iii our hands not palms but paste
board, and not very thick pasteboard at
that; hut it gives Us the entire of the ban
quet hall; it secures US q sat at the feast
not one feast alone, but sig-and over each
is to preside
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL,
the poet, the man whose broad, deep cul-
ture places him among the foremost lite
rateurs of the day. Wemay all forget that
for four years he represented the United
States the Court of SAINT James, for Gov
eminent can make foreign minister out
of most any kind of a man, but dozen
governments could not give to us the pleas
ure we have had through reading the poems
of this gifted man. Can one ever forget
THE First Snowfall, = which made our
eyes grow suddenly as misty as an April
morn ? In many a memory his : BigeloW
Papers, by far the best New England
dialect poems ever published, will always
be faithfully treasured. Who can look out
on a winter night, when the moon looks
down upon the snow clad earth. without
recalling Lowell's lines:
"God makes sech nights, all white an still.
Fur'z you can look or listen,
| M )onshine an snow on field an hill,
All silence an all glisten,''
And bis Sermon on War-was ever force
full argument condensed to strol ger terms:
Ez for war. call it murder
There you hev it plain and fiat:
l don't want to go no furder
Than my Testyment for that;
| God hez Sed so plump and fairly,
It's ezlong it is broad,
An you've got to git.up airiy
Eff you want to take in God.
faint your eppyletts an feathers
Make the thing grain more right;
'Taint follerin your bell-wethers
Will excuse You in His sight;
Eff you take sword an dror it.
An go stick Il Teller thru
Guv'ment amt to answer for it,
Godll send the bill to you.'
Yes, we are sure Of our reWard-eight
hundred of u.s.. We do not count the cost
too great. though we stood in that long
: after until the long fingers on the clock
! dial pointed to a quarter Of TO- We know
what we were there for, and were album
dainty satisfied for our trouble.
} Patient reader, are you J.. d. 9.
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Chicago Election.
The result of the election in Chicago or
the 9Th, for municipal officers was of more
. than local significance. 1t was the first
q time when the anarchist element had made
), a square issue before the people. Ofcourse
: the party engaged against it was the Re
. publican-the Democrats having fused
with either the anarchists or Republicans
. Roche, the Republican candidate for may